Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

Florida cedar is smooth, soft and free
from knots.
The Sultan of Turkey never rej0iCes on
Easter. He has 4S4 wives.
Spee king English with the French &C
cent is the socteEy capec in Washington.
A girl may be like sugar for two rea-
sons She may be sweet and she may he full
of grit
George Gould is trying to buy the
yacht Hildegarde, formerly owned by the
Prince of Wales
California has the only beet root sugar
factory in America. 1t is located at Alvarado,
and is moderately successful.
As it takes three weeks to perform the
marriage carem ny in Japan, !hat country is
no place for runaway couples.
Dakota has met the free pass question
by apnrOprlaging $500 a year for her supreme
court judges travelling expenses.
San Francisco is to hsve one of the
finest bands in the country, and an agent is In
New York engaging leo musicians.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, the as
tronOmer, will remove from ST. Joseph, Mo. to
his orange grove, near Palatka, Fla.
Miss E eauor Hooper is the name of a
young lady who is astoni hing all musical
Brooklyn by her wonderful violin pa Ing.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries
the idea of female emancipation so far as to
demand that half the police force IN lar elite 3
consist o. WO hen.
Miss n. B. Cummings, now the librarian
of the Department of Justice at Washin' ton, is
regarded as one of the best authorities on law
books in the country.
John Stewart of Conway, Mass, some
time ago pr missed the PrOhibitiOnists that If
his expected heir should be 81 he would
yrnfn ,cFS Tfpc n 81
was a girl, and the ProhibitiOnsts carried the
town last week y majority of one
OF late the Atlantic cables have been
often used by Weslthy Americans to consult
their physicians who were traS cling abroad
The other DAY New York dOHt,r cabled 20 8
young American physician who has recently
located in Paris for advice in very important
case.
The New York State Assembly has
passe d a law by which the heirs of a person
killed in q railroad accident m y recover up 10
O,OO0, inste of S5OOO as at present. For
long time IL has been cheaper for railroads in
that state o Ii man outright than simply
to MAIN him.
W J. Seaman, the Irish minstrel, says
he WAS lately offered 1000 TO lend his name to
advertising tooth paste. The propri-to tors
wanted him TO c. rtify that he had been given
the recipe by some countess and had consented
to sell /! for The benefit of mankind.
Only one ex-President survives, but
there are sti living at lie st nine women who
hav be; n mistress of the White House. These
include the wi ows of Presidents Tyler, Polk,
Grant and Garfield; Mrs. Harriet Lane Johns n,
niece of President Buchanan; Mrs. MCElroy,
sister of President Arthur, and Mrs. Patterson,
daughter of President johnson.
Farmers in some sections of Pennsyl-
vanIa maintain the er'ility of their ellis by APP
plying 100 bushels of slaked lime to the acre
once in five years 1t is said that fields that
have been subjected to this treatment for the
past lOO years are as productive now as when
the exp rtment was frat tried. This appllca-
ton de ends for It's value much upon the
original character of the soil.
Property to the value of $4,000, 900
was destroyed by fire in the United States dur
ing the month Of March, an increase of nearly
go par cent. over he corresponding month of
last year. The losses already recorded during
the present month indicate q similar contrast
between the total for April, 1886, and that for
April, 1897. 1t is fair TO assume that this as
tontshing increase in fire loss has been due to
the extraordinary cold.
A young lady named Shafer, who was
the proud pOssessor of lUXuriaEt head of hair
reaching almost to her knees, WAS found last
Tuesda at her home in Plttsburg, Pa, insen-
sible, wi h her tr cut close to her hesd. When
she was restored to consciousness she stated
that while alone that afternoon she was as
saulted by an unknown leddler. who over
powered her ana then forced nCr 10 i"hale
chlOrOfurm Sew days ago msn call-d at
her heir, but she refused to part with her heau-
tiful tresses. The peddlrr who assault d her
this afternoon Is believed to be the same party.
A sensation Of peCulisr nature is re
ported from Warren, twenty miles southeast of
Wabash, Ind. TIE enterp: Using citizens of
that place recently drill ed for gas, and at a
depth of 900 feet struck promising flow of oil.
This was the fret OF found In toe Trenton rock
in Indiana, ~ d the well was prom unCed better
than oil well No. at Lima. Lima man was
employed TO shost thu well. The result was q
dis appointment. as water flowed instead of oil.
1t is now alleged that the Lima man Is in the
e ploy Of the Standard OIL Company, aud that
the standard ks d not wish OIL i.Ory de
V loped al present west of Lima. 1t is be ieved
that the Lima man shot the well point
auove the oil-De ring strata. Another well
is to be put dow n OF once and the territory fully
developed.
The tide of spring immigration has set
in several weeks earlier than usual this year,
and promises t. exceed IN volume that of any
year since 1882. Last weeks New YORK arrivals
amounted to $50, snd those of q single day
certainly exceeded 1000. The first three months
1852 Ia May 1882, the arrivals for the month
footed up SS,76s, and from present indications
the number may be nearly as great this ear.
Superintendent Jackson, at Castle Garden, says
that the most noticeable increase has been
among the Scan inavians The number of Ital-
ians arriving is very large, however, and agents
of the Meoiterrane can lines say that there is 8
On railroads. 1t is reported that the az ents for
the Anchoc line never before soc so many pre-
paid tickets from Mediterranean ports The
English lines al also bringing in vast numbers
of Irish emigrants from Queenstown.